eBook: Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama (DRM EPUB)
 
電子書格式: DRM EPUB
作者: Jeremi Suri 
分類: Politics & government  
書城編號: 22684563


售價: $182.00

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製造商: Free Press
出版日期: 2011/09/27
頁數: 368
ISBN: 9781439141700
 
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Americans are a nation-building people, and in Libertys Surest Guardian, Jeremi SuriNobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makerslooks to Americas history to see both what it has to offer failed states around the world and what it should avoid. Far from being cold imperialists, Americans have earnestly attempted to export their invention of representative government. We have had successes (Reconstruction after the American Civil War, the Philippines, Western Europe) and failures (Vietnam), and we can learn a good deal from both. Nation-building is in Americas DNA. It dates back to the days of the American Revolution, when the founding fathers invented the concept of popular sovereigntythe idea that you cannot have a national government without a collective will. The framers of the Constitution initiated a policy of cautious nation-building, hoping not to conquer other countries, but to build a world of stable, self-governed societies that would support Americas way of life. Yetno other country has created more problems for itself and for others by intervening in distant lands and pursuing impractical changes. Nation-building can work only when local citizens own it, and do not feel it is forced upon them. There is no one way to spread this idea successfully, but Suri has mined more than two hundred years of American policy in order to explain the five Ps of nation-building: PARTNERS: Nation-building always requires partners; there must be communication between people on the ground and people in distant government offices. PROCESS: Human societies do not follow formulas. Nation-building is a process which does not produce clear, quick results. PROBLEM-SOLVING: Leadership must start small, addressing basic problems. Public trust during a period of occupation emerges from the fulfillment of basic needs. PURPOSE: Small beginnings must serve larger purposes. Citizens must see the value in what theyre doing. PEOPLE: Nation-building is about people. Large forces do not move history. People move history. Our actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya will have a dramatic impact on international stability. Jeremi Suri, provocative historian and one of Smithsonian magazines Top Young Innovators, takes on the idea of American exceptionalism and turns it into a playbook for President Obama over the next, vital few years.
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